Package: latex-svninfo Version: 0.2.1-1 Severity: wishlist Since a couple of months now, /tex/texmf is an ordinary TEXMF tree. Therefore configuration files should no longer be installed in an arbitrary place below /etc/texmf with symlinks from a proper TDS place below /usr/share/texmf pointing to them, as latex-svninfo still does. Instead, the conffile can simply be installed at the TDS-conforming subtree of /etc/texmf, in this case /etc/texmf/tex/latex/ (or a subdirectory thereof).
If the conffile hasn't changed since sarge, it's probably a good idea to just move it from the old to the new place if it exists. If it has changed, some more consideration is required to prevent misleading "Configuration file created by you or a script" messages. Also note that not everything that has "cfg" in its name is actually a configuration file that should be installed below /etc. Quoting the Debian TeX Policy: ,---- | Files that are used to modify the behavior of executables must be | treated as any other configuration file in a Debian package. However, | files that are used to control the typeset output - the appearance of | documents - need not be treated as configuration files. It is up to | the maintainer of the package to decide which files make sense to be | used for site-wide (as opposed to per-project or per-document) | customization. | | A typical case for a site-wide configuration file is a file that must | be changed if a style file should use additional modules (installed, | for example, into TEXMFLOCAL). Options that only control document | output are rather used for a particular document or documentation | project and should usually not be installed as a configuration file. `---- Regards, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages latex-svninfo depends on: ii tetex-bin 3.0-17bpo1 The teTeX binary files -- no debconf information -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
